Black-Market Goblin Pricing for secret

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes secret as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on secret. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

The Goblin Council on manifesto

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about manifesto. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Three Goblins Discuss schema

The annual goblin schema colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

Tradition demands that the final word on secret be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.